Foot-rest for reclining-chairs.



0. L. OSTENDORF. FOOT'REST'FOR RECLINING CHAIRS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV] 4, 1915- 1,185,819. Patented June 6, 1916.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 6, 1916.

Application filed November 4, 1915. Serial N 0. 59,665.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'r'ro L. OSTENDORF,

' of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Foot-Rests forReclining-Chairs; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to thereference numerals marked thereon.

My present invention has for its object to provide a foot or leg restmechanism for reclining chairs with the prime purpose in view ofinsuring comfort, and permitting adjustability of the rest withreference to the seat of a chair, for accommodating persons of difierentstatures.

A further purpose of the improvement is to simplify the construction,and to reduce to a minimum the cost of manufacture, while at the sametime permitting the device to be readily controlled and operated tobring the rest to its various positions, without incurring anyparticular discomfort to a person sitting in the chair.

To these and other ends the invention consists in certain improvementsand combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, the novel features being pointed out in the claims at the endof the specification.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side elevation of a chair equipped withmy invention, and showing the rest in operative position, in oneposition of adjustment, with the carrier in intermediate position. Fig.2 is a bottom plan view. Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation, partiallyin section on line -3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a view in side elevation,partially in section in a plane similar to Fig. 3, showing the carrierin its uppermost position, and the rest about to be moved to itsuppermost position, and Fig. 5 is a detail view, in side elevation,showing the foot rest in another angular adjustment with relation to theseat, the carrier being in its outermost position.

Similar reference numerals throughout the several views indicate thesame parts.

In the present embodiment of the invention, 1 designates the side piecesof the usual chair frame, upon which is mounted a seat frame carrying aseat portion 2, which may be arranged in adjustable relation with theback of the chair, although this does not constitute any part of thepresent invention. The side pieces 1 are provided with guide ways 3, inwhich is mounted" for slidable movement a carrier 4:, having flanges 5which engage the aforesaid grooves 3. The

carrier 4 is movable forwardly and backwardly beneath the seat of thechair, its forward movement being limited by the crosspiece 6, whichlies in the path of the stops, or projections, 7. The guide ways 3 areinclined upwardly from the back to the front of the chair frame so as toimpart a corresponding slight upward movement to the carrier as thelatter moves outwardly from beneath the seat, whereby the rest, which isto be described presently, is maintained in proper relation with theseat portion, and the closing movement of the carrier is made easier.

Pivotally mounted on the carrier, near its forward end, is a supportingmember consisting of side strips 8 and cross strip 9, the side strips 8being pivoted to the side bars of the carrier, in the manner shown inFig. 2.

10 designates the rest, which is pivoted at one edge of the cross strip9 of the supporting member, and in such relation therewith that the restextends equal distances on opposite sides of the supporting member whenthe parts are in locked engagement, thus affording a centralized andbalanced point of support for the rest as well as a more compactarrangement in both its operative and inoperative positions. The restcarries a spring hasp 11, adapted to engage a cooperating projection 12on one side of the cross strip 9 of the supporting member so as to holdthe parts together, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. In this figure, thecarrier is in intermediate position between its extreme inner and outeradjustments, and the supporting member is held against further outwardmovement relatively to the carrier by means of the front portion 13 ofthe latter, which engages the forward surfaces of the side strips 8 onthe supporting frame. In this position, the rest 10 engages the seat inthe manner shown in Fig. 1, and with the construction described, it ispossible to arrange the rest at a different angle with relation to theseat as shown in Fig. '5 so as to accommodate different positions andpersons of different stature. For this purpose, the

hasp 11 is released, freeing the rest from its supporting member, exceptwhere it is hinged to the latter, and permitting the supporting memberto drop down. On moving the carrier to its extreme outer position, therest assumes the relation shown in Fig. 5, being supported at one end bythe front edge of the carrier, and at its opposite end by the seatportion of the chair. By lifting the rest from the position shown inFig. 5 and then elevating its front end and depressing its rear end, theparts can be lowered until they assume the position shown in Fig. 3,with the rest housed within the carrier and the supporting memberunderlying the rest, and, with the parts thus arranged, the carrier canbe moved to its innermost position beneath the seat.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with a chair frame and seat, of a carrier slidablyarranged beneath the seat for movement in and out, and a foot restmovably arranged on the carrier and having engagement with the seat atone angle when the carrier is in one position and at another angle whenthe carrier is in another position.

7 2. The combination with a chair frame and seat, of a carrier slidablyarranged beneath the seat for movement in and out, a supporting membermovably mounted on the carrier, and a foot rest pivoted to thesupporting member and adapted to be secured thereto whereby it mayengage the seat either when the carrier is in its outermost position, orwhen the carrier is in an intermediate position, and the supportingmember is released from the foot rest.

3. The combination with a chair frame and seat, of a carrier slidablymounted beneath the seat for movement in and out and a foot rest movablymounted on the carrier and adapted to engage the front edge of the seatat different angles for different positions of the carrier.

OTTO L. OSTENDORF.

Witnesses:

H. E. STONEBRAKER, RUSSELL B. GRIFFITH.

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